Ingrained

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My parents had a beautiful old desk which, as a child, I remember being quite taken with. I would often find myself in the bedroom just looking at its surface and tracing my fingers around its swirling wood grain patterns. They were captivating and mysterious and I imagined a whole menagerie of creatures as I began to link spirals and shapes together, seeing an eye and a head here, or the formation of a giant wing or sinuous tail there.

‘Ingrained’ takes me back to those childhood years. The spiralling and whirling patterns are like those I saw locked in the beautiful dark wood of my parents’ desk. In the triptych I wanted to create an equally organic feeling – with an almost liquid quality rivers of colour create well-worn tributaries and become ‘ingrained’ into the texture. Just as in my youth, I find myself searching the image for the hint of an eye…

This would look good on my wall - what are my Fine Art Print options?

Prints are available in four sizes, A4 to A1, starting at US$125. The A1 sized prints are a Limited Edition of 20 (plus 2 Artists Proofs).All Fine Art Prints are C-Type prints on archival photographic paper. Visit the Fine Art Prints page for more detailed information on this Abstract Art.

If you would like to see how this print will look in your own home or office, visit the On the Wall page for a downloadable set of my images and further instructions on how to view an Abstracted Reality print on your own wall.